Need cheering up.......

[sylvi]

Please will you all post some funny things today as i need cheering up. Thank you all.xxx

[Hidden]

Well I heard today that Richard III has officially been announced as "1485 Hide and Seek Champion"!

[sylvi in reply to Hidden]

Did you see that programme last night about him,it was very interesting. Now he is crowned hide and seek champion,will he please come out of hiding.xx

[Hidden in reply to sylvi]

Hee hee yes I did watch it. Fascinating!

[cathie]

O dear I can't thi k of any jokes, but

1. The crocuses are coming up here, there's always a brilliant display after local school kids planted thousands

2. A friend/colleague met me at a cafe near the station on her way to St. Andrews. It was lovely to catch up with family news and not so nice to hear news from work, I'm so glad I'm not there any more!

[sylvi in reply to cathie]

Seeing crocuses are lovely. xxxx

[cathie]

There are usually white, yellow and purple ones on the meadows down the road. Great swathes of them. They're just beginning to show their faces. And I also noticed that it was still light at 5 yesterday when I came back from my drawing class. So soon we can begin to think about the garden. WHich might not be very funny, but it is a lovely thought.

I hope you feel a bit brighter soon.

C

[sylvi in reply to cathie]

Take a photo and post it Cathie please.xx

[lorann in reply to cathie]

OMG, Cathie, the thought of seeing flowers and more daylight and digging in the dirt are really encouraging!

Sylvie, I know you enjoy your Garden, so soon you will be out there! And look how much better you are now than last year!! Love you, Loret xxx

[cathie]

It'll be a wee while for the crocuses, but I'll find one for you

[cathie]

flickr.com/photos/jo_mclure...

THIS is the best I can find just now This is on someone else's flickr account but gives an idea - its just down the road from where we live. Its not like that yet but will be in a couple of weeks

XX

[Hidden]

i just booked a holiday now my scan shows kidneys normal size and have a had foot predicure flare subsiding replaced by sore throat

I CANT do my toe nails the funny bit was when they removed bad skin it tickled and pulled a funny face or two. it was in one of those tai nail bar places lot of them in my area. feet and bendy ra toes now have pink nail varnish and heels no rough skin an indulgent £20

[sylvi in reply to Hidden]

I go to podiatry on the 28th feb to get my feet done and nail varnish has to come of for that,but hubby paints my nails for me. Where are you going for holiday? I am pleased your kidneys are ok.xxx

[Hidden]

zante a late deal

[sylvi in reply to Hidden]

When are you going? and i hope you have a lovely time,think of me when you are sunning yourself in your bikini!!! xxxxx

[cathie in reply to Hidden]

O that's a lovely place, I went with my daughter ages ago and we went on a day trip to Ithaca where Odysseus came from. I'm sure the warmth will do you good.

[Hidden]

in a bikini dont want to scare people with white whale look any way any one over 40 should think long and hard before putting on a bikini mid may x

[sylvi in reply to Hidden]

If i lose all this weight i would have worn one. Not sure if i could now.xxx

[Kathyfitz12 in reply to Hidden]

I am 71 and STILL wear a Bikini - even get some wolf whistles too (But I guess he did need glasses) I sunbathe away from the crowds cos a brown tummy makes me feel so much better and brown fat is so much more attractive than white flab!!!!

[Hidden]

I don't have anything funny to say, just wanted you to know that I am thinking of you and hope that whatever is going on it clears up soon. I have been to the hairdresser today before I went hubby said that I should have a no one all over, told the hairdresser who said he was happy to oblige if I really wanted to go down that route, my response was no way. Take care xxx

[sylvi in reply to Hidden]

I hope you told him to take a long jump off a short pier. Bless him. I think i over done it and ra is kicking my backside.xxx

[cathie]

Hairdressers are good - as long as they dont contort your neck. Husbands/ partners and hair are a bit of a dangerous zone. Once when I'd just come off a horrible easyjet flight (nowhere interesting - edinburgh to luton...) he told me my hair looked like Hitler. Something had happened to my fringe in the wind on the walk across the tarmac. Since then I've taken care with said fringe! Hope Sylvi's aches and pains are getting a bit calmer...

[Hidden]

Okay, scraping the barrel here but all this talk of podiatry has brought back memories. Years ago my husband bought me a pedicure (well, that's what he seemed to think it was) for my birthday.

It didn't start too well when the woman took one look at my feet and said 'Where on earth did you get these?' They are not too pretty admittedly but what possible answer is there to that?? I said I thought my mum & dad were in the frame. Turns out that this witch was actually some sort of amateur podiatrist. She hacked away at 'hard skin' but decided halfway through when it started bleeding profusely that it was actually a wart. I hobbled home from my 'beautifying' experience wrapped in bandages. Husband is exceedingly cautious about birthday presents these days! All my stories seem to involve blood, sorry!

[PJ68]

How about this....... for you Sylvi, when you wake tomorrow.....

Monday I had my exercise class and we had a taster session of Tia Chi - a very gentle muscle strengthing and breathing exercise.

First we did the waterfall......... as you take a deep breath in, raise your arms as far as you need to as the top of the waterfall. Then, exhale gently bringing the arms down to create the waterfall - resting at waist height! repeat 10 times

Not particularlly funny, but then imagine being a bit stressed with a piece of equipment not working properly at work - and instead of swearing at it, I breathed on it, waving my arms like some mad woman!!!!

Well, it made me feel better!!!!! and I had a little giggle!!! Hope you had a good sleep

Pen xx

[Hidden in reply to PJ68]

i use to do tai chi. my class was withdrwan from the gym I used to go to I miss it x

[Hidden]

Sorry coming late to this Sylvi. Feeling a bit sorry for myself today because sore back and nasty throat and lots of aches and pains everywhere plus a slight temperature. I was standing chatting to my friend, the practice nurse, outside the co-op when a man of around 60 came up to us brandishing a camera. He said "this is a whole new view of Stromness as you will never have seen it" and showed us the underside of a car?! I kind of assumed my friend knew him from the surgery - and she assumed I knew him from the arty world I mix in but in fact he was a complete stranger tourist. She said rather crossly that he had been snapping away in our direction from over the road so he could at least have shown us a photo of ourselves looking like the gorgeous fifty year olds we both are! We laughed when he walked away - I said "that's as near as you and I will get to a pick up these days!" to which she responded "I hope so if those photos of undersides of cars are anything to go by!".

Hope you are feeling a bit better now?

Tilda x

[sylvi in reply to Hidden]

I don't feel as bad as ysterday,but still not there yet. I think everyone is feeling it at the moment Tilda.Was that fella a bit strange Tilda or what? Hope you feel brighter today.xxx

[Andrea_Shapiro]

I had my calluses done by rheumy podiadrist today & danced round Sainsbury's like Darcey Bussell. Now that's a good feeling!

[sylvi in reply to Andrea_Shapiro]

I bet.xxx

Thanks everyone, i was in bed by 6pm last night just resting.xxxx

[lynn-bel]

My 6 yr old grandson went to his first "Little Beaver" meeting (the name caused a giggle straight off). He came away holding his head, shaking it from side to side, saying to his Mum "Oh Mum, it's soooo noisey in there. She (the leader) just has no control over the kids!" Made me laugh - he, like so many little ones, come out with the greatest quotes! He does talk and sometimes act like a little old man.

Hope this made you smile - we have some sun this morning, I went for an early walk and it cheered me up no end.

xx

[Judetheobscure]

Sylvi and one else interested

Going back to Richard III. When you feel rested, order or find a copy of 'Daughter of Time' by Josephine Tey. It's a small book, easy to read fiction - a dectective in hospital takes a look at the character of R III. It doesn't need a lot of concentration and reading will take your mind off how you are feeling. Best wishes Jude

Amazon says of the book: "Richard III reigned for only two years, and for centuries he was villified as the hunch-backed wicked uncle, murderer of the princes in the Tower. Josephine Tey's novel The Daughter of Time is an investigation into the real facts behind the last Plantagenet king's reign, and an attempt to right what many believe to be the terrible injustice done to him by the Tudor dynasty.

Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world's most heinous villains - a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother's children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the the Tudors?

Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard III really was and who killed the Princes in the Tower."

[Kathyfitz12]

What is a Post Turtle?

Well said the old man - Most Politicians are Post Turtles

What does that mean?

Well when you are driving down the road and see a Turtle balanced on top of a gate post - that is a Post Turtle - you know he didn't get up there by himself, he didn't belong there in the first place, he doesn't know what to do now he is up there, he's elevated beyond his ability to function and you just wonder who put him there to begin with.

Well it made me laugh - hope it does you too! Kathy

[sylvi in reply to Kathyfitz12]

You have to read it twice don't you,i didn't get it the first time then i did. ha ha ha ha ..xx

[Kathyfitz12 in reply to sylvi]

It's so tru though isn't it? Especially with all the kerfuffle going on with Politicains these days - I particularly like the one - elevated beyond his abilty to function - quite a few names come to mind there!!!

[cazh]

Hi Sylvi, sorry coming to this late.

Was working with a student in college this week, we were doing a First Aid at Work course.

Got to the bit about rescuscitation. The tutor said - ABC this is the way to remember the order of things we need to check. Does anyone know what the A stands for? One student piped up "Airway" - Yes very good, what about the B? " Breathing" said another. Then he looks at the student I'm supporting and says "What about C?" "Is it chlamydia?" she replies. Whole class immediately falls about laughing.

Hope you're feeling better today.

Caroline.

[sylvi in reply to cazh]

You worry about some of our young, they don't an ounce a sense between some of them.xxx

[cazh]

Yes I certainly wouldn't want any of this lot giving me First Aid!!

[Tinwoman2]

Hi Sylvie, it's not funny, but it is good...I have a new nephew, born Feb 5. That makes me an Aunt 13 times now. He hasn't been named yet because they thought he would be a girl!

Hope you feel better soon.

Christine

[sylvi in reply to Tinwoman2]

Many congratulations Christine, you will have lots of fun hugging him.xxx

[Tinwoman2]

Thanks, but unfortunately, my Step-brother & family lives in Ecuador. I have only met Bob one time-when my Dad married his Mom. I'm getting to know him a little via Facebook though.

I just found out the baby was 8 lbs 5 oz. No name yet.

[sylvi in reply to Tinwoman2]

Well it is still good news. Can you not get there for a visit,or is your ra that bad you can't travel far? xxxx

[Tinwoman2 in reply to sylvi]

RA is not being kind to me this winter, but usually I feel pretty good. No, it is the money factor that keeps me away. My meds & Dr visits cost me so much that I can barely feed myself; I have to rely on food banks & such. In July I finally get Medicaid so my costs will go down, Hooray!

Maybe I can start saving again then and make plans to visit family.

I would love to visit Wales/England/Germany some day too to see where my ancestors came from & if I have any distant relatives still there & to meet some of my new friends from this blog site.

Christine

[sylvi]

Your insurance system is so strange to me as we have the nhs,which we pay taxes on wages for. Our moan is all the europeans coming over here, not working and getting all our benefits and they don't pay anything into the system. I have no problem with people who work. Sorry for the moan,but i cannot work due to this blessed disease. I hope you do get your medicard as i am sure you have worked all your life and lkike me you can't now due to this disease.

I too haven't liked the winter here as it has either been wet or cold. Well we can look forward to spring which is just around the corner. You take care my friend. xxx